River North
Month: February 2025
Suburbs
River North
West Loop
Man charged with burglarizing 5 businesses in the West Loop
Weeks after Chicago police released surveillance images of a suspect wanted for five burglaries near Union Station, charges are being filed. Terrance Shorts, 30, facing five counts of felony burglary, had six active arrest warrants when cops picked him up Monday in the 5400 block of West Lake, according to CPD.
Calumet Heights
Man on house arrest invited children to smoke pot, drink booze, play with guns, resulting in 12-year-old’s death: prosecutors
Court documents reveal infuriating details about the circumstances that led to the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old girl inside a Calumet Heights home earlier this month. Prosecutors say a 19-year-old man invited six children to his house to smoke pot and drink alcohol before they all passed around firearms, one of which discharged, killing the girl.
South Shore
Ravenswood
Armed robbery and carjacking crew gets up to 22 years in federal prison
Four men who committed a string of carjackings and armed robberies across Chicago during two days in September 2022 are heading to federal prison. Damandre Henley, 28, received the lengthiest sentence: 22 years. Davario McDowell, 25, received 18 years, and Tyler Oates-Nelson, 29, got 15 years. The fourth man, Dwight Hasberry, 31, will be sentenced next month.
Citywide
Ordered deported in 2022, migrant is on probation for gun possession and charged with beating his ex-girlfriend. But judges refuse to keep him in jail.
A Venezuelan migrant who was ordered deported in 2022 is living in Chicago where he is now on probation for possessing a loaded ghost gun and on pretrial release for allegedly battering his ex-girlfriend repeatedly over the course of several days, according to court records. Prosecutors asked judges in both cases to keep Pedro Colmenares in jail as a safety risk. Both judges denied those requests.
Rogers Park
Lakeview
For his 66th arrest, he’s charged with stealing packages from a building where he’s been caught 3 times before
A six-time convicted felon has been arrested for at least the 66th time in his adult life, charged with stealing packages from a Lincoln Park apartment building. He’s also on pretrial release for allegedly stealing packages from the same building last fall while he was on parole for stealing packages in Lakeview.
South Shore
River North
Near West Side